{"id":863,"date":"2010-07-01T15:16:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/sullivan-denounces-gay-paper-outing-pastor.html"},"modified":"2010-07-01T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:16:01","slug":"sullivan-denounces-gay-paper-outing-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/sullivan-denounces-gay-paper-outing-pastor.html","title":{"rendered":"Sullivan denounces gay paper outing pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/07\/politics-as-total-war-ctd.html\">Good for Andrew:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I should add that [politics as total war] is not always on one side of the political equation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavendermagazine.com\/this-issue\/featured-article\/antigay-lutheran-pastor-protests-too-much\/\">This story<\/a> &#8212; about a gay journalist infiltrating a private therapy group in order to out and expose a conflicted minister &#8212; is just as disgusting a violation and should not have been published, in my view. Why? Because if a twelve-step group&#8217;s confidentiality is violated, then all bets are off. No hypocrisy was involved. But if the paper also offered a reward for others to infiltrate such counseling sessions in order to persecute gay ministers, it would be at the Breitbart level.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good for Andrew: I should add that [politics as total war] is not always on one side of the political equation. 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